Texas GOP chairman Abraham George clashed with the founder of the Indian-American Advocacy Council Sidharth on social media over H-1B and asked the latter whether he was afraid that he would be deported. The online spat came at a time when Indian-American groups are concerned over the increasing hate against Indians in the US. The […]
An Indian Redditor who got picked up in the H-1B visa lottery in 2025 asked on the social media platform if staying in India is the right choice at present. At a time when the work environment in the US is turning hostile against Indians and several companies are now reluctant to hire Indians on […]
In an ongoing lawsuit over the $100,000 fee for hiring skilled workers from foreign countries, as imposed by the Donald Trump administration, the administration informed a court that only 70 employees have so far paid the fee since it was imposed in September. The number is not huge and in fact rather low and that’s […]
Students on F-1 visas in the US working on OPT or OPT extension claim that the companies for which they have bee working are now backing off from sponsoring for H-1B visas at the last moment. And they are informed about this change only a few days before the H-1B cap registration begins on March […]
An Indian Redditor shared the professional struggles they have to go through in the US unless they are selected in the H-1B visa lottery. The H-1B registration for 2027 opens on March 4 but the Redditor said the company already informed him that he won’t be sponsored, even though it won’t require a $100,000 fee […]
A Redditor on an H-1B visa claimed that her passport was stamped ‘cancelled and withdrawn’ at Abu Dhabi preclearance as she was traveling back to the US in January, along with her husband. Explaining her case, she said that she traveled to India in November to celebrate her daughter’s first birthday and did not face […]
Immigration attorney Emily Neumann said there is a possibility of lower H-1B registration this year when the H-1B cap initial registration period opens on March 4, because of the new $100,000 fee and also owing to the present situation of the job market. The window for registration will open from noon Eastern on March 4 […]
Amid increased scrutiny of H-1B visa program in the US, a new job posting on LinkedIn by one Prasad DP has reached Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K Dhillon who called it illegal and vowed action against it. “This is not legal. We will look into this @CivilRights,” Dhillon said, reacting to the post, which only […]
A fundraiser for 30-year-old Sasikanth Reddy Donthireddy, who died in the US after suffering from a cardiac arrest, claimed that the Indian man was under a lot of stress as he never got picked up in the H-1B lottery. The fundraiser aims to raise money to send Reddy’s body back to India. Sasikanth came to […]
At a time when the Texas government has aggressively taken up the issue of H-1B visa holders allegedly stealing American jobs, a report by Dallas Express claimed that two Indian IT conglomerates, Cognizant and Infosys, are the top employers of H-1B visa holders in the state since 2020. The data is from January 1, 2020 […]
